OnOne Software gets liquid image resize technology.
In a recent press release, OnOne software makers of popular photo plug ins such as Genuine fractals, Mask Pro & others, have announced their acquisition of Liquid Resize Technology. This may sound boring but it’s actually pretty amazing. In two words.
Rather than a normal resize, which distorts your image if you apply a size other than one that matches the original aspect ratio, Liquid Resize finds uses a technique called “Seam Carving” to add information to areas that DO NOT distort the critical subjects in then image. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime the video below shows it in action!
Whats this all mean to us photographer. Hopefully it means that we can finally resize images without always having to concerned about the aspect ratio of the image. OneOne has stated that the software should be available for purchase sometimes in 2008. Pretty cool stuff!
I just go done listening to the show. 2 hours! wow. I don’t mean that in a bad way either, I enjoyed the whole thing. I just wish you had more roundtables.
This is an incredible piece of software. Although this does still introduce some artifacts, it looks amazing.
February 22nd, 2008 | #